Feed Writer is a professional desktop-based RSS editor for an easy and comfortable creation and maintenance of your own RSS feeds. It supports most RSS formats such as RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 2.0 and even Podcasts. Feed Writer also offers full UTF-8 compatibility which allows creating feeds with non-Latin text such as Cyrillic, Polish or Chinese. Apart from being able to Create or edit any kind of news feed, you can also create your own, provider-independent Blog.
Features List:
Reading of feeds (RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92 and Podcasts)
Creating/Writing of feeds (RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92 and Podcast)
Complete support of UTF-8 for feeds with non-Latin characters
Wide and comfortable management of feed meta data, including highlighting of mandatory fields
Timestamps can be given in absolute Universal Time or relative to the local time zone
WSYIWYG HTML and text-only editor for feed items
Associating file attachments to feed items and a comfortable file size calculator
Supports many common Internet date and time formats
Supports creating and maintaining Podcasts
Preview feature (with Internet Explorer 7 / Firefox or using an XSLT template)
Code View with syntax highlighting (for easier supervision of the XML source code)
Integrated, context-sensitive help feature
Code editor with syntax highlighting (for direct editing of the XML source code)
Archive feature (import and export of feed items into a separate RSS archive file)
Feed validation for checking the syntax of the RSS file (XML and RSS validation!)
(S)FTP feature for direct opening and saving of feeds on a remote server.
The secure SFTP/SSH protocol is supported.
Proxy server support for the integrated (S)FTP client and web access
Feed item import from Microsoft Excel
Support of more than 10 items per newsfeed
Free e-mail support in case of technical questions or problems
Defining Default values for the creation of new feeds
Future support of the formats Atom and RDF
